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I wish I had a picture…

July 18, 2008 By Deanna Piercy 11 Comments

Just now as I was driving home after delivering Meals on Wheels, I passed someone on our road driving an ATV with a raccoon on his head. I don’t mean one of those Davy Crockett coonskin caps. No, I’m talking a full size, real-looking raccoon, complete with head, body and tail. I’m supposing it was a taxidermy project because I couldn’t find anything online that looked remotely like this. (If anyone looked at the search history on my computer they’d really think I’d lost my mind.)

Once again I find myself feeling slightly out of step with the culture of this part of the country. Just like I couldn’t imagine seeing roadkill and thinking “gift for David”, I can’t imagine looking at a dead raccoon and thinking, “what a lovely summer hat that would make”.

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  1. Donna says

    July 18, 2008 at 8:36 pm

    Poor raccoon : (

    Must’ve been a sight though. I always see weird stuff or really cool stuff and wish I had a camera on me. I never have a camera when I really need one.

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  2. unschoolermom says

    July 19, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    Pretty disgusting. I’m with Donna. I feel sorry for the raccoon.

    Kandy

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  3. TERI says

    July 19, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    I bet you were thinking “Did I just see a raccoon on a dude’s head?” When I lived in Sacramento years ago, I was driving with my children and their friends and there was a guy on the overpass that was “flashing” his privates to the cars below. Try explaining that to a car full of 6 yr olds! My oldest son is an adult now and he still laughs at that!

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  4. Caleb says

    July 21, 2008 at 3:24 am

    On the other hand, Capt. Dave Pierre Blackheart could become Davey Crockett. He’s already got half of the name ;-).

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  5. Deanna Piercy says

    July 21, 2008 at 1:38 pm

    Oh, Caleb. Don’t you know that pirates are much cooler than the “king of the wild frontier”?

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  6. Caleb says

    July 21, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    But he killed him a b’ar when he was only three!

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  7. Kathie says

    July 23, 2008 at 1:33 am

    We were recently in Nicaragua and I saw a man sitting in a restuarant with an iguana on his head. And it was real and alive. Of course, I didn’t have the camera with me.
    Blessings from Costa Rica

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  8. Crazy Lady Cheryl says

    July 24, 2008 at 12:53 am

    You know, my husband has lots of family in Oklahoma – there is a huge chance that you just passed one of his cousins. You know, the kind that is married to their own cousin… AACK

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  9. Deanna Piercy says

    July 24, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    Cheryl, if I see the guy again should I ask if he knows you? 😉

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  10. Crazy Lady Cheryl says

    July 26, 2008 at 3:49 am

    LOL Nah, I try to keep my distance. But, maybe next trip to OK, I will have my husband drop me off at your place and he can go visit his raccoon wearing cousins!

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  11. Deanna Piercy says

    July 26, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    Sounds like a good plan, Cheryl. 🙂

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